From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:59:01 -0700 Organization: Linux Kernel Organization, Inc. Message-ID: <48B50945.7020709@kernel.org> References: <7vprnzt7d5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>, <20080826162513.GR10544@machine.or.cz>, <20080826164526.GM26610@one.firstfloor.org> <48B5098E.748.A598B62@Ulrich.Windl.rkdvmks1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andi Kleen , Kristian H??gsberg , Matthias Kestenholz , Johannes Schindelin , users@kernel.org, Jeff King , Junio C Hamano , David Woodhouse , git@vger.kernel.org To: Ulrich Windl X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Aug 27 10:04:56 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KYG17-0000Bl-Sk for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:04:38 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753156AbYH0IDc (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:03:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753108AbYH0IDc (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:03:32 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:42797 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754226AbYH0ID3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:03:29 -0400 Received: from mail.hos.anvin.org (c-98-210-181-100.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [98.210.181.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m7R7xCZL024858 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:59:13 -0700 Received: from tazenda.hos.anvin.org (tazenda.hos.anvin.org [172.27.0.16]) by mail.hos.anvin.org (8.14.2/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m7R7xC2q014034; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:59:12 -0700 Received: from tazenda.hos.anvin.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by tazenda.hos.anvin.org (8.14.2/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m7R7x1aK012288; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:59:03 -0700 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) In-Reply-To: <48B5098E.748.A598B62@Ulrich.Windl.rkdvmks1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93.3/8096/Tue Aug 26 17:21:28 2008 on terminus.zytor.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Ulrich Windl wrote: > > In HP-UX many commands (or "subsystems") use /opt//{bin,sbin} to place > their binaries. PATH usually does not contain all of them. That's against Linux > philosophy I think, and I really don't like huge PATHs, but it may be one solution > to reduce the size of linear lists. It won't help against the git issue > directly, however. > /opt is part of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard which defines layouts on Linux systems. It is generally not used for binaries included in distributions or otherwise managed via distribution package managers, however. -hpa